In the morning, Strongarm and Steeljaw were woken up by a knock at the door, "Strongarm, Steeljaw, get up and come out." Steeljaw instantly starts growling at being woken up. It doesn't help that he's woken up by the voice of the Autobot he so much despises.

"We'll be right there!" Strongarm called as she stretched her arms over her helm, "Come on, Steeljaw, we don't want to keep them waiting," she replied as she got up. After she made sure she had everything on and in place, she went outside. Steeljaw followed her after he had put his armor back on.

Everyone assembled in the scrapyard, except for Metalsound, "Where's Metalsound?" Bumblebee asked.

Thunderhoof shrugs, "Don't know, she was gone when I woke up."

Metalsound finally shows up, "Where have you been?" Sideswipe asked.

"Went for a run, now I need to do my stretches," she replied as she put her arms halfway in the air, standing on one foot.

"Without letting any of us know? How many times do I have to tell you that you're on probation, Metalsound!?" Bumblebee asks in irritation, he's getting really frustrated with the femme who keeps thinking that she can do however she pleases.

Metalsound rolled her optics, "Relax, Bumblebee, I only went for a run. I have no intention of running away."

Bumblebee vented out a frustrated sigh, "Anyway, it's time to start community service, all four of you."

"Aww, I can't do my stretches first?" Metalsound asked.

"Afraid not. Soundwave and Metalsound will help Fixit. Steeljaw and Thunderhoof will help Denny."

"Should be fun," Thunderhoof grumbled. "Which one is Denny?" He asked looking at the two humans.

"That would be me," Denny says stepping forward.

"Oh, so what do you want us to do?"

"Follow me," he says as he starts walking. Thunderhoof and Steeljaw followed after him while Soundwave and Metalsound followed after Fixit.

Bumblebee looks at Strongarm and Sideswipe, "Strongarm, you and Sideswipe look over Steeljaw and Thunderhoof."

Thunderhoof glanced over to Strongarm and Sideswipe, hoping the red mech wouldn't cause any trouble. Steeljaw releases a low growl so Strongarm can't hear him, "Why does that punk have to come along?"

"Don't go starting any trouble, I've got enough worries as it is with that kid," Thunderfoof tells him.

"Like what?"

"He's just annoying."

"That he is."

"So what are we doing?" Thunderhoof asked Denny.

"I just got in a shipment, so you two are gonna help put the stuff where I want them to go."

"Sounds simple enough," Thunderhoof replied.

"Here we are," Denny says as they arrive at the spot. "Pick up some boxes and follow me, I'll show you where to put them."

Thunderhoof looked over to Steeljaw, shrugging at the shipment, it looked like a lot of old music boxes. Carefully picking up a few boxes he followed Denny as he showed them where to put them. Setting the stack on the ground a music box fell, breaking into several pieces. As it collided with the ground a single note played before it fell silent.

"Be gentle these are antiques!"

"They're what?" Thunderhoof asked as he knelt down to pick up the music box only to stop when he heard a loud pop followed by a yelp. "What on Cybertron was that?"

Metalsound was on her back whimpering softly, "Ow, that hurt."

Bumblebee comes over to where she is, "What happened?"

"I connected the wrong wires together and it shocked me," she replied.

"But I thought electricity didn't hurt you," Jetfire piped remembering his encounter with her in the thunderstorm. She had dropped him for a moment as a bolt of lightning hit her before she caught him again.

"That's only when I'm in the air, if I'm grounded or near metal then it hurts like crazy," she replied as she slowly sat up.

"Are you gonna be alright?" Bumblebee asks.

"Yeah," she winced as she shook herself free of the shock. "Now I know how you felt when you fell onto those power lines," the femme said to Soundwave who just looked at her with a blank face.

"Just be more careful from now on," Bumblebee warned.

"I wonder how--"

CRASH!!

"Nooo!"

"The heck are they doing?" She asked as she looked out the window. Seeing the broken boxes her jaw dropped as she stared in disbelief.

"Scrap, sorry," Thunderhoof apologized as he tried to pick up one of the now many broken music boxes.

"I said be gentle, they're antiques!"

"What is an antique?!"

"It means that they're old and fragile." Thunderhoof looked up to see an upset Metalsound, she knelt down and gently picked up one of the music boxes. "I think I can save them, Denny," she told the older human as she looked closely at the box, gently poking at it.

"A lot of these antiques are known to make them what they call money, these antiques are practically Denny's living," says Strongarm jumping into the conversation.

"It's the same as credits back on Cybertron," Metalsound added as she put the key back in place. Testing it she turned the key as it slowly started to play a soothing melody.

"Oh, I see now."

Strongarm watched Metalsound as she started fixing the other music boxes, "Lieutenant, why don't we have Thunderhoof work with Soundwave and Fixit for a while? Metalsound can help Denny with the rest of his shipment," Strongarm suggests.

"Good idea."

Rolling his optics, Thunderhoof left to join the others. He could hear each music box coming to life as Metalsound fixed them as quickly as he had broken them.

After an hour she had fixed all of the broken antiques, "Where do you want these, Denny?"

Denny showed her where to put them.

"Hey, Strongarm. Can I talk to you?" Sideswipe asks the cadet all nervously.

"I guess," Strongarm was wondering what he was up to this time, probably one of his usual insults or something.

"I wanted to apologize for the way I've been treating you, it was wrong of me and I'm sorry."

Blinking in surprise she looked at him for a moment trying to figure out what the catch was. But it seemed like he was serious, "What brought this on?"

"I guess I finally grew up and I saw my errors and knew I was wrong. I was worried when Steeljaw kidnapped you and I felt so bad that I couldn't stop him."

"Apology accepted, don't beat yourself up over it," she responded still a little unsure.

"Good. Thank you."

Steeljaw growls as he looks at them. Metalsound hears him and swats her tail on his leg, "Calm down. You're crushing the box," she growled softly noticing his claws digging into the cardboard boxes.

"What?" He asked as he looked over at Metalsound.

"Loosen your grip before you break whatever's in there, I don't want to hear Denny crying over it," she growled as she placed her stack of boxes on the ground.

"Oh sorry," he says as he loosens his grip and then places the boxes down on the ground.

"It's okay to feel jealous but he really is like a crazy brother. Strongarm loves you, you've got nothing to worry about."

"Yeah, I know. I just can't help it, I go crazy whenever I see another mech talking to her, especially if they touch her." He sees Sideswipe suddenly grab Strongarm and kiss her.

Strongarm pushed him back, "What the pit, Sideswipe!?" She shouted.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help it! I've been wanting to kiss you for so long and I just couldn't help myself..." The red mech yelped in surprise as he was pushed to the ground by Steeljaw.

Steeljaw raised his claw to teach the mech a lesson only to be tackled by Metalsound, who was now in her beast form. Crouching down he growled at the femme who in turn let out her own growl to act tough but on the inside, she was terrified.

"Sideswipe, leave, now!" Strongarm tells the mech as she worries for his safety. She starts walking toward her mate as Sideswipe runs off to get far away from Steeljaw. "It's alright, Steeljaw. Just calm down," she calmly states as she slowly walks over to him.

Bumblebee, Grimlock, Thunderhoof, and Drift run over which caused Steeljaw to feel uneasy and they could tell he was getting ready to attack someone, anyone. "Lieutenant, stay where you are!" Strongarm shouts and Bumblebee, Grimlock, Thunderhoof, and Drift stop in their tracks. "You may want to move back, Metalsound."

Metalsound lets out a soft whimper as she cautiously walks over to Thunderhoof and gets behind him. Steeljaw terrifies her when he's this mad.

"Just calm down, Steeljaw," Strongarm says once more as she gets closer to him, she kneels in front of him and puts a servo on his helm. She starts stroking his helm around his ears, "Calm down my love, it's alright."

Slowly he started to calm down, his growls becoming a little quieter. Feeling her servo on his helm he started calming himself down, he now understands why Wolf-Cons calm down and feel more at ease from the touch of their mate, it's just so relaxing for some reason. He leans his helm closer to his mate, his tail wrapping around her arm.

She pulled him into a loving embrace, "Permission to leave and go back to my quarters, sir, so that he can calm down." Steeljaw's body shook as he returned her embrace.

"Granted, I need to talk with Sideswipe," Bumblebee looked to the ship seeing the mech watching the whole thing.

Strongarm got up with Steeljaw and they headed to her quarters, Steeljaw eyed Sideswipe and started growling but kept walking with Strongarm to her quarters. Strongarm was holding his servo as they walked.

Once they were in her quarters and the door closed she sat him down on the berth and sat in his lap, she wrapped her arms around his neck and laid her forehelm on his. "Just calm down my love, just calm down."

Steeljaw wrapped his arms around her, his claws gripping her back, "How can I? How can you expect me to calm down after he--?" He closed his optics but he kept seeing that foolish punk kissing his mate. He buried his helm in her chest.

"I know, he was foolish to do that, just please try to calm down, we'll get through this. I know this is making your protective instincts go crazy but you have to try and calm it."

He nodded as he tried to calm down, even his grip on her was starting to loosen up. She was right, he had to calm himself down. "I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it. It's natural for mates, especially a Wolf-Con who has protective instincts over their mates."

Just hearing her voice was enough to calm his nerves, "Could you keep talking? I don't care what it's about, it could be about your police rule book for all I care. Just something to distract me from doing something stupid."

"Alright," she goes on talking to him. He wraps his tail firmly around her waist along with his arms, he's not letting her go anytime soon.